Exec Cheat Sheet: Your Weekend Read, Career Trajectory: Tatum and Carell, Sitting Down With Women of ‘Beyond the Lights’

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Exec Cheat Sheet: Your Weekend Read

All around Hollywood, execs are sitting around conference rooms today deciding what will be on their weekend read. SSN has gathered an unofficial list and offers up our unsolicited advice on what next steps should be. (SSN)

Career Trajectory: ‘Foxcatcher’’s Channing Tatum and Steve Carell, Proof Nice Guys Can Finish First

Sony’s Foxcatcher, in theaters today, has had ample awards buzz and is thought to be in the Oscar running, thanks in no small part to Carell’s turn as John du Pont. While Tatum has smartly chosen to vary the genres he plays in, Carell’s career has stayed away from especially dark dramas. (SSN)

A Sitdown With the Women of ‘Beyond the Lights’ — Gina Prince-Bythewood, Guygu Mbatha-Raw, and Tami Riker

The new film from the award-winning writer/director of Love & Basketball and The Secret Life of Bees crafted the character of Noni after watching an Alicia Keys concert at the Hollywood Bowl. (SSN)

TODAY’S HEADLINES

George Clooney Is Getting Some Company in Jodie Foster’s Next Movie

Julia Roberts and Unbroken star Jack O’Connell are in talks to join Clooney in Money Monster, the financial drama to be directed by Foster for Tom Rothman’s new TriStar shingle. (THR)

Your 2015 Oscar Telecast Has Itself a Surprising Head Writer

Producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron have tapped Greg Berlanti to lead the writing team, which will also include Seth Grahame-Smith and Berlanti associates Andrew Kreisberg and Michael Green. (VAR)

‘Captain America: Civil War’ Has Its Villain, and His Name Is…

Daniel Bruhl has signed on to join Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Chadwick Boseman and, one would expect, Samuel L. Jackson and Scarlett Johansson in the franchise’s third film, due in theaters May 6, 2016. (DH)

Jude Law Appears Set To Get His Villain On Again, This Time For Old Pal Guy Ritchie

The actor looks like he might reunite with his Sherlock Holmes director to play the bad guy in Warner Bros.’ upcoming King Arthur franchise, starring Charlie Hunnam in a series planned to go six movies deep. (COL)

Those Rumors That Universal Is Bringing Back Justin Lin To End the ‘Fast & Furious’ Series? Bunk

Studio honcho Donna Langley made it clear during a roundtable discussion that there are no immediate plans to wind things down, and that there could be “at least three more” to come. (TP)

Fox Wants To Make Sure There Is More Of Mindy Kaling To See

Network orders six more episodes of The Mindy Project, bringing the sitcom’s third season to a total of 21. (MF)

Trailer Buzz: ‘Escobar: Paradise Lost’

The first trailer from the upcoming thriller about a surfer dude visiting Colombia who thinks he has met the perfect girl until he meets her uncle: drug kingpin Carlos Escobar. Benicio Del Toro and Josh Hutchinson star in the film, due in theaters January 16, 2015. (LR)